Elihu J. Peters

Elihu Johnstone Peters (1827-1888) was a colonel of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Elihu Johnstone Peters was born in Eupora, Mississippi in 1827, and he worked as a farmer before serving in the US Army during the Mexican-American War as a captain of volunteers. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, he was commissioned a colonel in the Confederate States Army, commanding a regiment of Mississippi volunteers in the Army of Northern Virginia. In 1862, he fought at the Battle of Port Republic, assisting in the defeat of the Union army. Peters' regiment would see action in several major engagements in Virginia from 1862 to 1865, and he was wounded at The Wilderness in 1864. After the war's end, he returned to planting, and he died in 1888.